The job of a DNS Service, like Google DNS or OpenDNS, is to translate web domain names (like google.com) into IP addresses. It is therefore important that you choose the fastest DNS Server for your computer since it is used every time you visit a new site in the browser.

If you have limited Unix / Linux experience, here are some handy command line tricks that will help you do things a lot faster. Also, these Linux commands arenâ€™t specific to any shell so you may use them in any Linux environment.